Example sentences of "come [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
| 2 | Since March 1990 , the number of patients waiting more than two years has come down by 47 per cent . |
| 3 | The optimum completion time has come down by one minute to 11 minutes and more time is being allowed on the roads and tracks section before the cross country . |
| 4 | right , erm Could you , you said that your payroll costs had come down by five million that 's figure is it ? |
| 5 | Her father had n't come back by one o'clock . |
| 6 | You 're supposed to come back by any reasonable route — but reasonable is not defined . |
| 7 | If it is , it has to have come about by Darwinian selection of fluke genes . |
| 8 | But er we went from erm Quay , we did stay at Belfast for a about erm just er a few hours , picked up the Belfast passengers , they , they , we did n't dock there , we they came on by tender . |
| 9 | In state primary schools the pupil-teacher ratio went down by 7.5 per cent and in state secondary schools there was a fall of 9.5 per cent , but in the same ten year period the pupil-teacher ratio in independent schools came down by 17.7 per cent . |
| 10 | Others , including Sir Richard Lewkenor of West Dean , came in by that most profitable entrance in a chronically litigious society , the practice of law . |
| 11 | The rabbits gave them a wide berth and came through by another gap farther up , close to the gnarled trunk of an old crabapple tree . |
| 12 | Additions to a cluster can of course come about by internal investment in greenfield projects ( such as an accountancy firm starting up its own insolvency practice ) , as well as by acquisition or merger . |
| 13 | This refocusing could come about by individual students following particular pathways determined by them in negotiation , not only with teachers , but also with mentors in the business and wider communities . |
| 14 | Its growth , therefore , does not come about by territorial gains , but by individuals and groups submitting their wills to that of their Heavenly King . |
| 15 | A union will only come about by 1997 if a substantial majority of Community members agree it should . |
| 16 | Come in by 8.30 Monday morning ’ . |
| 17 | He did n't say , ‘ Right , men — come in by twos , line up facing east and bang your foreheads on the floor ! ’ |
| 18 | Some people in ICI still come up by one functional channel and reach the top , but most emerging people get the management development treatment rather like I did . |
| 19 | These resemblances come about by single-step selection , that is to say by a single coincidence . |
| 20 | So I need to be able to get down to actu that 's when you , supposing that comes down by another ten K say , so then we 're talking about fifty K , thereabouts , overspend in the main area , in which case to work out what 's caused that , is that directly attributable to the the inputting of the systems . |
| 21 | If she comes out by that hole her only route must be through the cage , in which she is then recaptured . |
| 22 | On the dates that you 've anticipated if Mr comes back by that time we 'll be able to absorb the post , but it 's likely that he may move on from this , because it 's a fairly substantial move up . |